Messages

When messages are available, an icon is displayed next to the Messages button on the notification area of the menu bar. If you have the necessary rights, you can click it to open the Messages pane at the bottom half of your screen.

This page includes the following:

Overview

The messages provide information on the execution of tasks or on the status of processes. Depending on their nature and priority, the icon that is displayed next to the Messages button on the menu bar is one of the following: yellow for warnings, red for errors, and gray for messages.

Click it to open the Messages pane, which displays the messages as they happen. The only exception are the administrator and security messages that have not been read yet. If the settings have been defined to display these messages, they are available on the screen as long as they remain unread. In this case, unread means that you have not opened the Messages pane since the message was created.

The list is continuously updated and displays the messages in chronological order, with the most recent message at the top of the list. Loading new messages to the list is paused when you click the Pause button or interact with this pane, for example when you enter a search criterion in the Search input field, when you scroll up or down the list of messages, when you select a message, etc.

Their date/time format of the messages depends on your browser locale.

Security and Administrator Messages

These are special messages that occur frequently.

Security messages provide information on accesses that are subject to the authorization system. For example, if a user starts an object but does not have the relevant authorizations, a security message is output.

Administrator messages give you information on the system. For example, messages relating to the start and end of server processes and agents.

Message Pane Functions

The following functions are available from the pane menu bar:

Force memory trace dump

If your user definition contains the necessary privileges, the Force memory trace dump option is available on the pane. Click it if you want the memory trace dump to be written to the trace file. For more information, see Granting Automation Engine Privileges.

If tracing into FILE is enabled for the server, a message is displayed to inform you that no memory trace is available.

Searching for Messages

You can search for alphanumerical strings. The search is not case-sensitive and it does not support the use of wildcard characters.

The hits are highlighted in yellow, with the selected one displaying a in a darker shade. You can navigate through the results via the right and left arrows.

Pausing or Resuming Message Loading

Messages are continuously loaded. Click Pause to stop the message feed and Resume to start loading messages again. Take into account that any interaction with the Messages pane automatically stops the message feed.

Viewing History Messages

The Messages pane shows the messages that have been output since your last login but you can easily display older ones. Click History to open the Message History dialog.

In the upper pane you enter the criteria to filter the messages, the results are displayed in the pane below. You can configure the columns to be displayed/hidden on the table. For more information, see Working with Tables.

The following criteria are available for filtering the historical messages:

Detaching the Messages Pane

By default the Messages pane is displayed inline at the bottom of the main page. You can detach it by clicking pane detach button; this opens a dedicated browser window with the list of messages. Click the icon to attach it again.

Settings

The Settings button opens a dialog where you can define which and how many messages will be displayed.

The options that you can see in Scope depend on your user privileges:

If you activate the Show unread administrator and security messages at next logon checkbox, administrator and security messages that occur while you are not logged in will be displayed in a separate dialog the next time you log in to the application if no other user has read them yet.